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Shares that like March

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the best returns in March over the last ten years. For example, The Restaurant Group has an average return of 12.4% for the month of March. All stocks have risen in March for at least nine of the past ten years.

Shares that dislike March

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the worst returns in March over the last ten years. For example, Renishaw has an average return of -4.4% for the month of March. All five stocks have fallen in at least eight of the past ten years in March.

An equally-weighted portfolio of the above strong March stocks would have out-performed every year an equally-weighted portfolio of the above weak March stocks by an average of 10.1 percentage points in March for the past ten years.

Shares that like March

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the best returns in March over the last ten years. For example, Aggreko has an average return of 11.7% for the month of March. Each stock has risen in March in at least nine of the past ten years; Intertek is the only FTSE 350 company whose shares have risen in every March for the past ten years.

Shares that dislike March

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the worst returns in March over the last ten years. For example, Aviva has an average return of -7.7% for the month of March. All five stocks have fallen in March in at least eight of the past yen years.

An equally-weighted portfolio of the above strong March stocks would have out-performed every year an equally-weighted portfolio of the above weak March stocks by an average of 13.7 percentage points in March for the past ten years.

The 2013 edition of the Almanac looks at the historic monthly performance of the FTSE 350 sectors. Here we look at the Support Services sector.

The following chart plots the average out-performance of the FTSE 350 Support Services sector over the FTSE 100 Index by month since 1999. For example, since 1999 on average the sector has out-performed the FTSE 100 Index by 1.2 percentage points in January.

Observations:

The strongest months have been January and December – the sector has under-performed the market only four times in December in the last 14 years.

The weakest month has been July – the sector has out-performed the market only four times in July in the last 14 years.